Criminals could make your Jacuzzi evil and fill it with hot stinky goo, says hacker
dailystar.co.ukEatonWorks discovered security flaws in the Jacuzzi SmartTub. Billed as a 'smart Jacuzzi', these hot tubs can be controlled with a smartphone, giving their owners the ability to play with settings from afar.However, Eaton demonstrated that this connectivity also leaves the SmartTubs open to hacking from afar, with potentially mucky results.READ NEXT: First ever job 'inside' a videogame pays you £20k to restock virtual Pringles Not only was Eaton able to get hold of private information about every single person who owned a hot tub, they also had the ability to revoke someone's ownership and take control of their jacuzzi.
Eaton told Motherboard that this method gave them dangerous power over the hot tubs, to the point where a hacker could permanently destroy them. "As for remotely controlling tubs, I think the worst you could probably do is turn the heat all the way up and change the filtration cycles. "Then in a few days you could have a hot, stinky soup.
There are no chemicals to control—you have to do that by hand."They added that "the amount of data I was allowed to see was staggering", but stressed that they did not personally take any action against users.
Eaton has tried to inform Jacuzzi about the vulnerability back in December, and finally went public with their findings this week.Jacuzzi has since issued security patches to try and solve the security issues, which should hopefully prevent any hot tub owners from being attacked by hackers.Eaton says that the exploits he used to get into the SmartTub have now been secured as a result. READ MORE:.
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